BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine riot police fired tear gas and water cannon on Sunday to break up dozens of rock-hurling youths in central Buenos Aires after the nation's hopes of a first World Cup win in 28 years were dashed by Germany in the final. Parents clutching their children ran away from the iconic Obelisk monument where tens of thousands of people had gathered, as the rowdy youths taunted police officers and tried to kick down the metal grills on some shop fronts,...

MANDALAY Myanmar (Reuters) - Police in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-biggest city, said they had arrested another five people after sectarian violence in which a Buddhist and a Muslim died, but an overnight curfew and a heavy security presence appeared to have restored calm on Friday. The clampdown followed two nights of violence starting on Tuesday when about 300 Buddhists converged on a tea shop owned by a Muslim man accused of raping a Buddhist woman. The...

The Vancouver Sun reports: The kissing couple lying in the street in the iconic photo shot during the Vancouver riots after the Stanley Cup finals has been identified as Scott Jones of Australia and the woman he has been dating, Alex Thomas of Vancouver. "It's something he would do, that's our boy," Jones' mother Megan told the Australian news website Ninemsn . "He has always lived in his own world, he's special like that. He doesn't always connect with what's going on...

Primus and 12 other bands will be joining The Cure, Jane's Addiction and The National at the 10th anniversary Riot Fest in Humboldt Park on Sept. 12-14, organizers announced on their website on Wednesday. Tokyo Police Club, Say Anything, The Hold Steady, Frank Iero, Only Crime, Lemuria, Pity Sex, From Indian Lakes, Lucki Eck$, Tiny Moving Parts, The Picturebooks and Survey Says! along with 90s rockers Primus were added to the lineup that features more than 100 bands. Also...

TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Authorities regained control of a privately owned prison in Mississippi on Monday after a 12-hour riot in which one guard was killed and nearly 20 other people were injured, prison officials said. Authorities took control of the 2,567-bed Adams County Correctional Center, a low-security prison in Natchez, Mississippi, that houses mostly illegal immigrants for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, at around 2:45 a.m. CDT, according to the Corrections...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has promised to provide financial help to businesses hit by anti-China riots which erupted last week over a territorial dispute between Hanoi and Beijing in the South China Sea. The measures include tax relief, rent waivers and early lines of credit, the government said in a statement issued late on Wednesday. The tax relief will include a maximum 30-percent cut in special consumption tax this year and a two-year delay in payments for taxes that...

TUNIS, May 26 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Salafi Islamists attacked bars and shops and clashed with security forces in a Tunisian town on Saturday in the latest incident to raise religious tensions in the home of the Arab Spring uprisings. Police and witnesses in the northwestern town of Jendouba said hundreds of Salafis - followers of a puritanical interpretation of Islam - began rioting to protest the arrest of four men in connection with previous attacks on alcohol...

Way back in 1998, Chris and Roberta Hanley 's Muse Prods. was at the center of a Cannes fest casting brouhaha that involved Leonardo DiCaprio and their film version of Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho. " Leo didn't wind up in the picture, but the Mary Harron-helmed film helped launch Christian Bale into the acting stratosphere, so there's your happy Cannes ending. This year, the indie filmmakers have outdone themselves attention-wise, first aided by James Franco's...

When last seen at Lollapalooza in Grant Park a few months ago, Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender was working out a few issues on stage: bending and twisting her body into positions once only attempted by Cirque du Soleil contortionists, pounding the floor like a flamenco dancer in her bare feet, leaping into the audience, and working herself and her band to exhaustion until her drummer literally threw up - and kept playing. The physicality of her performance matched a voice that seemed to...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam last week have raised doubts about its commitment to foreign investment, the state-run China Daily newspaper said on Monday, as China reported it had evacuated about 4,000 people from its southern neighbor. A flare-up over disputed sovereignty in the South China Sea sparked protests in Vietnam that spiraled into a rampage of arson, destruction and looting of Chinese-owned factories, and other businesses mistaken...

By Michael Schmitt For RedEye and MICHAEL SCHMITT IS A REDEYE SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR | February 2, 2009

Riot Inside is driven by a passion to stand out from the crowd. "It was just an idea of trying to make a band that was a little different," said drummer John Castro. "We all had our influences but we wanted something unique." One of those unique factors is the group's collaborative songwriting process, he said. "One of our guitar players is actually a music student and he's very into composition techniques," he said. "When you place those things in the framework of 'rock music,' I think it creates...

After a confusing day of assertions, reports, updates and unofficial denials from parties close to Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alekhina, members of the Russian social activism and arts group, Pussy Riot , the young human rights heroines have definitively dashed any talk of their playing any role in the upcoming film " Spring Breakers : The Second Coming." After Variety first reported the efforts of the film's producers to connect with Pussy Riot for...

HANOI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Dexter Hsu spent Tuesday night barricaded inside his workers' dormitory in Vietnam's Binh Duong province. Tables were stacked up against the doors, but he and his dorm-mates were terrified by the shouts and sounds of nearby rioting. Earlier that day, the Taiwanese product developer at a footwear company saw a mob of some 4,000 angry protesters riding scooters into the industrial park where he worked, smashing windows and breaking...

HANOI (Reuters) - Rioting broke out at industrial zones in southern Vietnam during protests by thousands of workers angered by Chinese oil drilling in a contested area of the South China Sea, officials said on Wednesday. Workers smashed gates in the rioting on Tuesday and entered industrial parks housing factories in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces, which are central to Vietnam's sizable manufacturing interests. The destruction comes amid high tensions between China...